American Struggle to Preserve Liberty
Destruction of the Old Regime
The Napoleonic Era
Can You Explain?
Hodge Podge
100
The relative unimportance of the colonies, the failure of the colonies to show a profit, and England's attention to other areas of the world.
What is the three reasons that England permitted her American colonies great religious and political liberty?
100
The name given to the political and social order in France before the French Revolution.
What is "Old Regime"?
100
Period from 1796 to 1815 often called in European history.
What is Napoleonic Era?
100
Mayflower Compact
What is agreement establishing civil authority for the Plymouth Colony?
100
These two battles came before the Battle of Saratoga, the constitution, and the Declaration of Independence.
What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
200
Financial contributions, that is, looking for the colonies to "pay their own way".
What did England expect from her colonies in exchange for the benefits England provided?
200
The peasants: the taille - tax of real and personal property, the capitation - a poll tax or tax on each person, and the vingtieme - an income tax.
What is those who bore the greatest burden of tax and definition of three types of taxes that they had to pay?
200
This event officially brought an end to the French Republic.
What is Napoleon becoming emperor?
200
Document written primarily by Thomas Jefferson and adopted by the Continental Congress.
What is Declaration of Independence?
200
heavy taxation of the poor, the incompetence of Louis XV and Louis XVI, and the discontent of the First Estate were causes of this.
What is French Revolution?
300
"No taxation without representation"
What is the root of the colonial protest against the actions of Parliament?
300
cahiers
What is the name for the list of grievances which the delegates took to the convening of the Estates-General?
300
This is the year that Napoleon became emperor.
What is 1804?
300
delegating specified powers to the national government and reserving all other powers for the state governments
What is federalism?
300
Storming of the Bastille
What is end of the Old Regime?
400
Battle of Saratoga
What is battle fought in October of 1777 and the turning point in the War for Independence?
400
Called for a written constitution, equal taxation, equal justice, and the destruction of the remnants of feudalism.
What is four of the most common grievances listed by the delegates of the Third Estate?
400
Napoleon invaded this country in 1812.
What is Russia?
400
government based upon the consent of the governed
What is popular sovereignty?
400
The national right of all people and the rights possessed as citizens in 1789
What is Declaration of the Rights of Man?
500
The aspect of government that delegates specific powers to the national government and reserves other powers for the state and local governments.
What is principle of federalism as it relates to the American government?
500
This is considered the beginning of the French Revolution.
What is storming of the Bastille?
500
Napoleon was defeated for the final time at this battle.
What is Waterloo?
500
name given to the political and social order in France before the French Revolution
What is "Old Regime"?
500
Its purpose was to get rid of opposition to the revolution
What is Reign of Terror?
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